Britain's Olympians get drugs warning

Britain’s 271 Olympic competitors are each to be given a medical pack of ’safe’ drugs to treat minor ailments while they are in Athens and warned not to buy off-the-shelf products from local chemists.

UK Sport, Britain’s drug-testing agency, are providing the pack for the first time at a Games in an attempt to avoid athletes making the same mistake as Alain Baxter, the Olympic skier who was stripped of his bronze medal two years ago after buying an American nasal inhaler that contained amphetamine.